Founders' Award to Watson '90
Beverly Watson '90 was named the recipient of the 2020 Ransom Everglades Founders’ Alumni Award, which is awarded to individuals who, through loyal attitude, inspired spirit and unselfish action, have helped fulfill the vision of the founders of the Ransom and Everglades Schools. The Director of the Scholars Program at King Philanthropies in Menlo Park, Calif., Watson has enjoyed a multi-faceted career in global education and access and currently helps international students develop leadership and social-impact skills. Recent recipients of the Founders' Award include Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber ’85, Rudy Prio Touzet ’76, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ’70 and Maurice Ferre ’79.
“Beverly has honored Ransom Everglades for three decades with her work across the globe,” Head of School Penny Townsend said. “She is the embodiment of our school’s mission; her work for the betterment of the global community illustrates what we hope for from every graduate. We look forward to presenting this award when it is safe to gather again.”
Watson launched her career after graduating from Georgetown University and Stanford Law. She helped underserved students prepare for standardized testing at a company founded by her brother, Carlos Watson ’87, and sister Carolyn Watson. She worked towards poverty alleviation in Mozambique, and founded a social impact enterprise to connect bright minds and university resources with needs in South America, Africa and elsewhere. She helped provide access to higher education as an executive at Laureate Education foundation, a global education company, and served as chief operating officer at the XQ Institute, a foundation devoted to innovation in secondary education.
“I feel really blessed and fortunate that all the roles I have taken have one thing in common: they involve an issue or organization I care deeply about,” she said. “Being able to work at a place that has a mission you believe in, and can be part of the solution, is extremely rewarding.”
“She’s always been a big-minded, global person, a lot like my mother,” Carlos Watson said. “She fell in love with the world early on … She has always had a really powerful way of inspiring people, and helping them be their best. I know Bev will be an inspiration to what is an even more social-justice-minded generation, a generation even more focused on leaving the world better off.”
Read more about Beverly Watson in the latest RE Log.
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Watson launched her career after graduating from Georgetown University and Stanford Law. She helped underserved students prepare for standardized testing at a company founded by her brother, Carlos Watson ’87, and sister Carolyn Watson. She worked towards poverty alleviation in Mozambique, and founded a social impact enterprise to connect bright minds and university resources with needs in South America, Africa and elsewhere. She helped provide access to higher education as an executive at Laureate Education foundation, a global education company, and served as chief operating officer at the XQ Institute, a foundation devoted to innovation in secondary education.
“I feel really blessed and fortunate that all the roles I have taken have one thing in common: they involve an issue or organization I care deeply about,” she said. “Being able to work at a place that has a mission you believe in, and can be part of the solution, is extremely rewarding.”
“She’s always been a big-minded, global person, a lot like my mother,” Carlos Watson said. “She fell in love with the world early on … She has always had a really powerful way of inspiring people, and helping them be their best. I know Bev will be an inspiration to what is an even more social-justice-minded generation, a generation even more focused on leaving the world better off.”
Read more about Beverly Watson in the latest RE Log.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.